Kiplinger's released its "Best Value" college rankings and North Carolina's schools ranked pretty well. All of the following are Kiplinger's overall ratings for in-state tuition.
Public School Category
#1 UNC-Chapel Hill
#18 NC State
#25 UNC Wilmington
#29 Appalachion State
#43 UNC Asheville
#98 UNC Greensboro
BTW, my alma mater George Mason University came in at #46 and in general Virginia also did very well. UVA was #3, William & Mary #5, Virginia Tech #15, Mary Washington #23 and James Madison #28.
So if you put Virginia and North Carolina together we have 11 schools in the top 50.
Private Universities Category
#5 Duke (Just ahead of Harvard)
#20 Wake Forest (Just ahead of Georgetown)
#29 Elon (Just ahead of U of Southern California)
Private Liberal Arts Colleges Category
#4 Davidson (Just ahead of Washington & Lee)
All in all North Carolina stacked up pretty well, although even the "best value" schools had some scary price tags attached to them. I pine for the old days during my first semester at George Mason (fall 1985) when I lived at home and paid $750 in tuition for a full 16 hour class load. Now it's $3,756. Ouch. BTW, if the school's tuition had risen at the same rate as inflation then the cost would only be about $1,430. Of course by the time I graduated in 1989 I think the tuition rate was already over $1,100 for a full class load so I shouldn't be surprised it kept going up at a fast clip.
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